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Alternative Fun Facts: Up in Flames

Alternative Fun Facts: Up in Flames

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I might be the only person who makes a living by sending emails about his nightmares to tens of thousands of people.
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They burned them alive like they used to burn witches, and they streamed the whole thing on Facebook Live. You could watch them ignite, one after the other: politicians, journalists, models, cooking show gurus. They all sobbed and begged for their lives, each in their own style: standup comedians left the world with a tasteless joke, opera singers belted out a requiem, slippery politicians made one last promise they had no intention of keeping as they went up in flames.

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